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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.
Brigitte Bardot
Rights
Animal
Political
Matter
Someone
Voice
Animal Rights
Left
Up
Just
Whether
Stand
Stand Up
Right
Defend
Need
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
You
Property
Rights
People
Welfare
Matter
Dictatorship
Citizen
Power
Group
Worry
Running
About
Only
Small
Property Rights
Small Group
Very
Ordinary
Ordinary Citizen
Really
Who
Keep
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
Cesar Chavez
Day
Leadership
Spiritual
Tired
Rights
Conflict
People
Pressure
Long
Drive
Advice
Increases
Strike
Weaken
Civil
See
Civil Rights
Crumble
Involved
Without
Families
Get
Poor
Poor People
Workers
Hard
Deep
Each
Each Day
Grow
Need
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.
Clarence Thomas
Rights
Group
Believe
Philosophy
Individual
Individual Rights
America
Founded
The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.
Elena Kagan
Government
Respect
Rights
People
Responsibility
Made
Our
Ensuring
Recognize
Must
Proper
Never
Individuals
Bounds
Also
Supreme
Supreme Court
Course
Court
Limits
Itself
American
American People
Choices
Violates
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Confidence
Rights
People
Gift
Believe
Complete
Ours
Given
False
Inference
Us
Who
Right
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. Mencken
Rights
World
Value
Men
Privileges
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
Harvey Milk
Respect
Rights
People
Money
Remove
Give
Compromising
Individual
Takes
Survey
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives.
Hassan Rouhani
Respect
Rights
Achieve
Diplomacy
Approach
Address
Mutual
Mutual Respect
Objectives
Constructive
Shared
Counterparts
Footing
Equal
Concerns
Mean
Means
Engaging
Basis
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
John Wooden
Rights
Feelings
Before
Own
Others
Consider
Your
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
Joichi Ito
Terrorism
Rights
Law
Human Rights
Rule
Rule Of Law
Destroy
Response
Won
Human
I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
Leo Varadkar
Life
Myself
Rights
Abortion
Consider
Unborn
Support
Demand
Accept
Pro-Life
Human
Request
Human Life
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Man
Injustice
Rights
Other
Must
Constantly
Some
Viz
Give
Both
Put
Absurdity
Involves
Protected
His
Up
Legally
Politically
Order
Forth
Apology
Palpable
Consent
I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.
Martina Navratilova
Life
You
Rights
Free
Country
Live
Think
Considering
Tell
Would
About
Free Life
Take
GOP
How
Leave
America
Trying
Same
Going
Communist
Many
Away
Position
Donald Trump and the First Amendment, it's not a beautiful match; it's not a match made in heaven. Between the free speech rights that he has not defended and the freedom of the press, which he has not defended, it's problematic.
Megyn Kelly
Beautiful
Freedom
Rights
Made
Free
Free Speech
First
Press
He
Between
First Amendment
Match
Trump
Amendment
Donald
Donald Trump
Heaven
Problematic
Which
Defended
Speech
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.
Mike Crapo
Happiness
Life
Government
Rights
People
Equality
Liberty
Unalienable
Evident
Recognize
Secure
All People
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
New
Calls
Becomes
New Government
Governed
Denying
Establish
Declaration
Us
Inherent
Right
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
Rand Paul
Depression
Great
Rights
Voting
Think
Great Depression
Emancipation
Citizenship
Impatient
Economic
Voting Rights
Became
Understood
American
African
African Americans
Happened
Republicans
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to give man liberty, to clothe him in all his just rights, I am on the side of that rebellion.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Man
Rights
Rebellion
Liberty
Side
Drawn
Give
Protect
Him
Am
His
Just
Wherever
Rebel
Sword
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.
Sojourner Truth
Great
You
Rights
Women
Word
Will
Men
Before
Bad
See
About
Colored
Over
Masters
Stir
Get
Getting
Just
Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.
Sojourner Truth
Rights
Women
Will
Men
White
Think
Negroes
Out
Must
Pretty
About
Something
Soon
Talking
South
Fix
North
Where
Much
Racket
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson
Man
Rights
Unalienable
Nothing
Unchangeable
Inherent
Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.
Vladimir Putin
Democracy
Rights
Will
Nothing
Human Rights
Ensuring
Russia
Road
Nobody
Freedoms
Human
Stop
Strengthening
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
Vladimir Putin
Government
Rights
Strong
Care
Responsibility
Society
Weakened
Would
Individual
Take
Whole
Need
Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
Dinesh D'Souza
Vote
Rights
Law
Giving
Blacks
Over
Equal
Equal Rights
Democrats
Passed
Opposition
Amendment
Republicans
Fifteenth
Right
Fourteenth
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
Alexander Hamilton
Rights
People
Protection
Citizen
National
Everywhere
General
Purposes
Individual
Been
Privileges
Same
Each
Each Individual
Enjoying
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
Angela Davis
Relationship
Rights
King
Important
Think
Rights Movement
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Toward
Sort
Trade
Trade Union
His
Yes
Precisely
Movement
Acknowledge
Moving
Really
Assassination
Moment
Union
Union Movement
Dr
Dr. King
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